Rack for holding loose leaves, &amp;c.



WILIZUR SUTTON LOUNSBURY, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

RACK FOR HOLDING LOOSE LEAVES, 800.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1 2, 1914.

Application filed December 7, 1912. Serial No. 735,556.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILBUR S. LOUNS- near, of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton, and in the State of Georgia, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Racks for Holding Loose Leaves, &c., and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the handling of loose leaf forms such as statement sheets, ledger leaves, checks, deposit slips, etc, in copying therefrom, as in the use of adding machines, so as thereby to increase the efficiency of the operator, and I attain this object by the rack constructed substantially as hereinafter specified and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a desirable form of my invention-Figure 1 is a top plan view thereof; and Fig. 2 a transverse vertical section.

Referring in detail to the form of my invention shown in the drawings, it will be seen to embody, in the form of a V-shaped box 10, two shelf-forming walls 11 and 1 2 that incline upward and. away from each other, from each of which, near the box-loottom projects inward, at right angles, a short partition, one of which is designated 13 and the other 14 which abut, and one of which projects a short distance above the other providing an overhanging ledge or flange 15.-

Thus, in effect, I provide two opposite compartnients 16- and 17, the bottom of one being-formed b the partition 13 and the bottom of the other by the partition 14 and the overhanging ledge 15. At each end' of the box there is a transverse wall 18. I

- In the use of the rack shown in the drawings, theloose leaves, arranged in the desired alphabetical or other order, are placed. in the compartment 16, lying against the inclined shelf 11 with their lower edges resting upon the partition 14 and as fast as the desired entries are made from the' outermost leaf, it is picked up and placed in compart1nenty17. The ledge 15 prevents the inadvertent or accidental tumbling over of the leaves from compartment 16 into compar tment 17. The leaves, of course, are preserved in the same order in compartment 17 that they hadin compartment 16.

,Of course, the form and dimensions of racks to embody my invention 'may widely vary; as may also the means for attachment to the adding machine, and accordingly I do not restrict myself in these particulars, and my claim is to be interpreted in the light of this statement.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is A loose leaf holding rack having opposite shelves that incline upward and away from each other from each of which extends a partition, said partitions meeting and one passing beyond the other, one of said partitions being parallel with one shelf and the other parallel with the opposite shelf and both being within the rack.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

NVILBUR SUTTON LOUNSBU 

